[Updated] Characters being drawn as a box

[kam]

2nd poster in this thread said they had an Nvidia card.

 

I can set AA to use application settings in Catalyst Control Centre, turn off AA within DCS and the boxes are still a solid green colour.

 

The only filter I can see within CCC is "Standard" or "Edge Detect", is this what you mean?

[BIGNEWY]

2nd poster in this thread said they had an Nvidia card.

 

I can set AA to use application settings in Catalyst Control Centre, turn off AA within DCS and the boxes are still a solid green colour.

 

The only filter I can see within CCC is "Standard" or "Edge Detect", is this what you mean?

 

yes, it has been a while since I had ATI, I am just trying to think outside the box as no solution has been found for you guys yet that I know of.

[kam]

I won't have tried every combination but I have spent a lot of time going through the CCC options and trying different things. I've tried other things within CCC, such as the options for GPU upscaling on/off and Virtual Super Resolution on/off Here's a screen of what we have to play with on the CCC panel.

[kam]

Whoops wrong page, here it is..

[SkateZilla]

could this be a localization issue?

 

Which language is set as your windows default?

[kam]

English - UK for me.

[X-man]

Swedish for me

[Chamot]

Similar to these?

 

Also is anyone else having an issue with the front windows of the Huey being opaque? Like this

 

Yes, that is what I'm getting - not to mention the round particles/textures themselves are also rendered with long orange/yellow transparent rectangles around if a plane fires tracer rounds.

 

The large water splash effects also have the same issue. I also just checked the Huey and I have the same problem you do on that screenshot. I think some textures on some planes are also rendered as white rectangles but since I can't see them I can't be more precise.

 

I didn't post it earlier as an nVidia user reported to have the issue but I also have an AMD GPU, a R290, to be precise. I'm also on an eyefinity setup but setting the game resolution to 1080p didn't seem to help. I'll try turning eyefinity off in the driver next.

 

I also tried two or three different driver revisions, just in case, with no success.

 

Turkish keyboard here, if that helps.

Edited November 8, 2015 by Chamot

[Chamot]

After a few more attempts to change different options to find a cause I was not successful in pinning down a specific setting. However, I had this weird instance where the previously broken F-15 HUD, radar and RWR text and symbology and its cannon tracer shells were rendered correctly. Conversely, the other fonts like the frame rate/video card info and labels, and the smoke from the cannon still had the errors.

 

I went back to the menu, tried the other planes and the issues persisted with them. Then I flew the F-15 again and the HUD and avionics worked in it until after exiting the game, after which, even though I changed no settings anywhere, it was back to the buggy HUD/avionics text and symbology.

 

I tried to reproduce this 'unbug' with the F-15 and the others but have not been successful so far.

[kam]

I had a dream one night after flying the A-10C for a while everything on the HUD and MFD's went back to normal :helpsmilie::joystick:

[Breakshot]

Guys, you need to get someone from the Devs to troubleshoot this... Sounds like a dead end at the moment.

[kam]

Absolutely nothing is off limits as to what I'll try in troubleshooting this if one of the developers suggests it, just fire away.

[kam]

The modelviewer standaolne version 106539. Modelviewer included with 1.5.1 is the same.

 

Where could I find the Huey cockpit edm?

 

Edit: found it

Edited November 11, 2015 by kam

[kam]

A terrible video but hopefully it gives you an idea of what's going on. This was using the modelviewer included with 1.5.1.

 

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Edited November 11, 2015 by kam

[billeinstein]

Maybe need to try different graphics cards.

I think these fonts shall be load into video memory.

If testers and devs can't reproduce this problem, they can't find a way to solve it even reported.

[Breakshot]

Certainly not GPU related. Both X-Man and thamuff have completely different hardware specs. ATI vs NVIDIA win 7 vs win10 etc.

 

So this has got to be some sort of software conflict or missing shared dll issue...

[kam]

If something works in one version, and not in the other then why wouldn't it be a bug? I'm not saying it's an easy fix seeing as it affects so few of the open beta users. Like I said I'll try anything the ED team suggest.

 

This is the modelviewer included with 1.2.6 vs the one included with 1.5.1.

[kam]

Still present in 1.5.1.47025 Update 1.

[BIGNEWY]

I am out of ideas and do not have a solution for you sorry.

 

If you have not already, have you considered a fresh install of windows?

[kam]

So unless we can reproduce, it can't get reported to ED?

[BIGNEWY]

ED are aware of it, I have asked for help from the devs. Still no solution yet.

[kam]

Cool thanks. I have a spare hdd so i'll try a fresh install of windows tonight.

[kam]

Fresh install of windows and DCS works perfectly as expected.

 

Will keep installing software that's on my normal install to see if/when it breaks..

[BIGNEWY]

Fresh install of windows and DCS works perfectly as expected.

 

Will keep installing software that's on my normal install to see if/when it breaks..

 

Good to hear, would be nice to know what caused the issue, if you find out let us know.

[Chamot]

Yeah, let us know how it goes. I tried a lot of things to find a workaround but had no success.

 

One thing I spotted in thamuff's and PSV_Tango's system logs was DisplayFusion, a program I also use. I have no idea how it would break transparency in certain textures (which I assume is the core issue, with the UH-1 cockpit, Hawk cockpit, smoke textures, tracers and some plane decals/labels broken as well as many fonts), and I actually tried the game with it uninstalled but it didn't help. But who knows, maybe it installs some system file and breaks some texture file format reading or something as a side effect.